Compare this with Ruby Rails - a little MySQL DB installation, a little Rails installation, maybe some GEMs - and a text editor to do your development in. I know it isn’t exactly a like for like comparision - you can create lots more than Web applications with Visual Studio - but given that that is what we’re dealing with in the CMS product, I don’t see why it all has to be so complicated. It’s like taking your entire collection of Snap-On tools to fix a leaky pipe - when a pipe wrench will do.

And the installation speed! Slow doesn’t cut it. Hours for Visual Studio, despite the fact that I could copy the entire DVD in less time.

All in all, I’d better be impressed with the functionality of all this, ‘cos right now I’m looking at the pipe wrench thinking that it is small, cheap, flexible and easy to use.